Well, I realize I haven't posted in awhile. The process of getting married tends to eat up a lot of your free time, although it is fantastic and well worth it. On top of that, my current project has slowed significantly for a variety of reasons, including the lead dev moving on to another part of the company and delays in getting our current main focus deployed. One thing I will say, once other people become dependencies in a project, all bets are off. We've had delays from people leaving, delays waiting for people to test, delays in getting code deployed due to resource shortages and delays in code other people are working on. That's corporate development I guess, but it tends to be at odds with the kind of code output a typical Clarity project team can do.
Ajax continues to be interesting, but the more I work with it the more I realize although Microsoft made some things simple on the surface, it isn't quite as simple as it appears in the context of an enterprise application. There are a lot of considerations to take into account, particularly when it comes to the interplay between client-side and server-side objects and code. There is a bit of a mind shift that has to take place and as long as you keep a foot in both worlds, a lot of decisions are not as straightforward as they could be. Silverlight may end up confusing matters even more. It's an awesome time to be involved in web development, but now more than ever you really have to stop and think about how you are going to manage and architect a solution.
When I have downtime, I've been doing some code refactoring and FxCop has turned out to be a pretty cool tool for basic stuff. I haven't looked into any of the custom rule sets yet, but apparently you can now share rule sets up on GotDotNet, although GDN is being phased out so not sure where it will end up. Also updating some documentation with Sandcastle, Microsoft's replacement for nDoc to generate xml docs. Right now it's still command line and with all the options, you might want to use the Sandcastle Help File Builder from Eric Woodruff. Feels pretty much like nDoc.